Star Trek Into Darkness: 10 Things That Make No Sense
2. Crash
Before Into Darkness was released, we were teased with the image of a ship that resembled the Enterprise, crashing into San Francisco. It turns out that the ship in question was actually the USS Vengeance.
With a rather awesome trick by Spock, Khan is tricked into beaming onboard 72 live torpedoes that explode and cripple the Vengeance. The ship slowly falls to Earth and destroys a considerable area of San Francisco. Not only are innocent citizens who might be enjoying a sandwich near the bay killed, the ship flattens skyscrapers that must be full of people before it finally comes to a stop. The death toll must be in the tens of thousands, the Vengeance is a huge ship and its impact with San Francisco would have had major consequence for the poor people on the ground.
Not that you would know though, not only does Khan survive the whole thing without messing up his uniform, the people walking around San Francisco dont seem too bothered about the starship that flattened half of the city. They seem more shocked by Spock beaming down with a phaser than the disaster that's occurred a few blocks down from them.
In-fact, so little attention is given to the mass death of innocent civilians, the Enterprise crew make no comment about it and are more concerned that Khan might have survived the crash. Spock and the crew might be upset that Kirk is dead, but screw the tens of thousands who just died because you let off a bunch of torpedoes inside the Vengeance.
The whole ending of the film was nonsense and felt rushed. The crash and the routine fight between Khan and Spock appeared to have been written because it was the easiest way to end the film. It was just lackluster, the film started to fall apart as soon as Khan made his big reveal and by the end it was obvious the writers had run out of ideas.